A World Where No One Is Too Far Gone.
Our Vision
To reach the forgotten and the abandoned with the Gospel of Jesus Christ — because we believe every single person can find hope and restoration in Him.
Our Mision
To serve prisoners, youth, the sick, and local churches through evangelism, discipleship, and practical help leaving no one behind.
The Founder
About The Founder
Joey van Nielen
Born in the Netherlands.
Joey van Nielen grew up in a Christian family with four children, born to a Dutch father and a Moluccan mother. From a young age he showed real talent in football, being scouted by Willem 2 and PSV, and went on to play in the Willem 2 youth team for three years. During secondary school, however, his parents' relationship broke down, and Joey developed serious aggression problems and difficulty with authority, leading to expulsions from two schools and placement at a school for young people with behavioural problems. He drifted into a life on the streets and became involved in crime, starting with thefts and burglaries, and became unmanageable at home. At sixteen, his mother sent him to a Christian shelter called the Home of Victory Outreach in Rotterdam, where he spent about a year, accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour, was baptised, and was filled with the Holy Spirit.
After returning to Tilburg, Joey failed to maintain his relationship with God, his heart hardened, and he fell back into the same circles as before. Driven solely by money and the pursuit of status within the criminal world, smoking heavily and taking nothing and no one into account, he sank deeper and deeper into a dangerous life. In October 2002, at the age of twenty, he was arrested and sentenced to seven and a half years for criminal organisation and robbery — offences so serious that the authorities referred him and his co-defendants to the Pieter Baan Centre for psychological evaluation. To the government, he was already a lost cause. After his release in 2008, he simply continued, now using prison connections to expand further into the criminal world, building a large cannabis operation and earning substantial sums of money.
Then in 2013, Joey's close friend and business partner was shot dead. Shortly after, he was imprisoned a second time, receiving a two-year sentence for bank branch burglaries. Upon release, he escalated into armed robberies, rip-offs, and hard drug trafficking, while also becoming addicted to cocaine. The paranoia of addiction, the growing list of enemies, and the steady stream of people around him who were either murdered or imprisoned for long stretches all began to close in on him. People he knew were being killed or put away, and he reached a point where he saw no way out — certain that he would either be murdered or locked away for a very long time. It was at that darkest moment, in 2019, that God grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and Joey made the radical choice to surrender his life completely to the Lord Jesus.
“If God has done it for him, then He can do it for me too.”
Not knowing how to move forward — having spent twenty years in crime, never finished school, and always earned money illegally — Joey's mother directed him to a sermon by Johan Toet, whose testimony gave him great encouragement. He thought: if God did it for Johan, He can do it for me too. God led him to Godcentre in Voorschoten, where things moved quickly. He became deeply involved in the church, was embraced by the pastor and congregation, and found a new family in the people God placed in his path — among them Ashvien Jitan, who became his spiritual leader and has been involved from the very beginning in the founding of Faith Generation, and Jimmy and Quincy Peperkamp, who have their own ministry in Romania. Through Godcentre, Joey spent years visiting youth and adult prisons to share his testimony and proclaim the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. In August 2024, he moved to Indonesia to continue the ministry there, where God opened doors to visit all approximately 650 prisons across the country. In a remarkable way that only God can orchestrate, he was brought together with Pastor Frits Maringka — an 83-year-old man who has run a prison ministry called Batu Penjuru (meaning "the Cornerstone") for nearly 35 years. Together they now travel to prisons throughout Indonesia, and as Joey testifies: this is just the beginning.
Our Team
Meet Our Team
JOEY VAN NIELEN
Founder
JULIAN MOCODOMPIS & ADELINE LEONORA
DIRECTOR
SJIANE JOHANNA J. KAKERISSA WATTIMENA
BALI OPERATIONAL MANAGER
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